Centuries from Shreyas Iyer and KL Rahul powered India to a 160-run Cricket World Cup 2023 win over the Netherlands on Sunday as they accomplished the group stage with an ideal 9 wins in 9 video games. Iyer (128 not out) and Rahul (102) placed on 208 runs to information India to 410-4. India then employed 9 bowlers, together with part-timers Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma, to dismiss the Dutch for 250 within the event’s concluding league match in Bengaluru. The hosts will face New Zealand within the first semi-final in Mumbai on Wednesday adopted by the second last-four conflict between Australia and South Africa the subsequent day in Kolkata. Iyer smashed his first World Cup ton in a match the place all of the top-five Indian batsmen went previous the fifty mark on a batting-friendly pitch.

He reached his hundred — his fourth in ODI cricket — off 84 balls. He ended with 10 fours and 5 sixes.

Bengaluru-born Rahul raced to his ton with two sixes for the quickest Indian hundred in World Cups off 62 balls.

He departed 4 balls later as India fell wanting their highest ever World Cup complete of 413-5 v Bermuda in 2007.

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Kohli reached his half century however fell for 51, silencing the gang who had been anticipating the star batsman’s fiftieth ODI ton after he equalled Sachin Tendulkar‘s report of 49 within the group’s earlier win over South Africa.

Skipper Rohit, who hit 61, and Shubman Gill laid the foundations for the full in a gap stand of 100 with the pair hitting common boundaries.

Gill fell for 51 off Paul van Meekeren and fellow fast Bas de Leede dismissed Rohit after the captain reached his fourth 50-plus rating together with a ton within the event.

Bas overtook his father Tim de Leede, who took 14 wicket for the Dutch within the World Cup, and claimed another to complete as the very best World Cup wicket-taker for his nation with 16 scalps.

The in-form Kohli reached the 71st ODI fifty of his profession solely to be bowled 4 balls later by Roelof van der Merwe‘s left-arm spin.

Kohli surpassed South Africa’s Quinton de Kock (591) because the main batsman of the 2023 event with 594 runs.

Iyer stored up his blazing kind to register his fourth successive rating of fifty and above within the event and acquired help from the opposite finish with Rahul becoming a member of the cost.

In reply, the Dutch had been by no means within the chase and stored dropping common wickets together with Kohli placing with the his light medium-pace to assert a primary ODI wicket in 9 years.

With the Dutch crawling of their reply, Rohit threw the ball to Kohli who despatched again opposition captain Scott Edwards, caught behind in his second over off a ball drifting down the leg facet.

It was solely Kohli’s fifth profession ODI wicket from his light medium-pace and first since 2014.

Sybrand Engelbrecht made 45 and Teja Nidamanuru hit 54 earlier than the innings folded in 47.5 overs with Rohit ending utilizing his part-time off spin to ship again Nidamanuru.

Rohit final picked an ODI wicket in 2012 and this was solely his tenth profession wicket.

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